Think Little

Think Little is brief book, a collection of essays if you will, in which Wendell Berry describes the country paradise of his Kentucky homeland.

Published in 1969, the collection uniformly professes a love for the country and a disdain for progress.

While I disagree with most of the conclusions, conclusions based a willful ignorance of reality, the writing is beautiful, the thoughts deep and haunting.

The writing reminds me of the Robert Roark books I read long ago, filled with a love for countryside land and the men who lived carefully within it.

I have a neighbor who was a student of this author at the University of Kentucky.